Clarity of Innocence

Our widely divergent views are symptoms of trauma!

Most, if not all of us, haven’t been lucky enough to live in undistorted reality!

We are all quite correct in our different beliefs though!

From our own experience, we all make perfect sense!

We simply live in different realities.

That doesn’t seem right, does it?

Well, it isn’t right!

Mankind is doing something unnatural, and this is one of the consequences!

Our young aren’t allowed to remain in authentic reality.

If we had been allowed, our understandings would match the beliefs of most others.

Every life is granted the power to survive in this world.

Our kids don’t get to keep their power! Not these days.

That is a massive change to make in the normal workings of life.

Given that great a detour outside of the normal flow of nurture, it would be crazy not to expect extreme consequences.

Well, we certainly got them! Predictably, they’re all bad consequences.

Every child lives a wide-open existence, inviting experience and understanding.

Normally, as infants, we would be adapting to the real environment around us, and eagerly learning to cope with it.

These days, each of us becomes blocked from just about every direction we try to explore and understand, and then redirected in different ways, so we all have different life experiences.

This doesn’t get to average out, because we don’t get to explore life. We aren’t allowed to pursue the next thing our own identity is telling us to understand. The severe control we experience gives us no room to generalize our learning.

Therefore, we all live in different worlds! Different parts of reality are missing from most of our varied lives.

Strong feelings accompany every event where we are stopped in our own thirst for understanding. Those feelings isolate those areas of life from our grasp of our environment.

We end up with a designer grasp of our world.

Therefore, we all have divergent views.

People going through therapy tend to drop extremist views, converging on similar beliefs.

Without early trauma, that’s where we would all naturally be in our beliefs!

What early trauma?

This is when life went bad, causing these divergent views, as well as many locked up feelings that hurt!

We got directed and traumatized.

We didn’t get to accept reality through our own senses, and in the order that we required.

We didn’t voluntarily allow this to happen to us.

We knew our own needs.

We fought and we lost.

We lost our power in this process. That was supposed to propel us through life.

How serious is losing our own power? Do you suppose that might have been important?

That’s what happened to us!

Now, being helpless, we do the best we can. Our beliefs and understandings are far from reality though.

Any attempt to relearn the areas of live we missed are blocked by our own bad feelings. We are stuck the way we are!

Consequently, natural agreement no longer happens.

We also hurt. Do you suppose it might hurt to lose our own driving force?

That hurt drives our thoughts and behavior as well.

This certainly explains the cruel nature of our civilization.

People allowed to follow their own path are naturally kind, cooperative, empathetic, and playful. That’s our default life.

We should be living community life, feeling safe, and feeling completely accepted.

We should be loving our hearts out, and feeling loved till it hurts.

That’s who people really are!

We should all naturally agree. That’s what happens when there are no barriers to accepting all truth.

All of us are living with different understandings of the world we live in.

However, this problem doesn’t come anywhere close to the difficulty of living without the power that was supposed to drive us through life!

Feeling helpless makes it impossible for us to resolve our differences. We don’t have the energy any more.

To do that we have to recognize and let go of all those areas where we know we aren’t seeing life the way it really is.

With our original power, we can do that instantly. Our own needs sort it all out.

Without our power, we can’t do it. It doesn’t help that we can’t see reality.

Once another person has forced an opinion on us that differs from reality, we are stuck with it.

They have got past our defenses and for us, this is now our reality!

Any feelings that would have corrected our understanding have been banned from our own consciousness, because they hurt!

If we are still in possession of our own power, this can’t happen.

Without the self-esteem we were born with, we can be made to believe anything. We simply can’t help it.

For any of us lucky enough to be allowed to keep our power, these things can’t happen! We are immune. We are locked into reality, just because we want to be.

What this is saying is we all believe different things because we don’t have the power to sort them out, and because our own feelings are in the way of the truth.

When we lose our self-esteem, we also lose connection with our own needs, We can’t feel them anymore.

We feel helpless in life, and we can sure feel that!

This entire exercise is simply one example of how things go wrong if our young aren’t allowed to live in the normal way, using their own resources to carve their own way through life.

The solution is not difficult to figure out, or to apply.

All life needs its own power.

If we allow our children to keep their own critical driving force, life doesn’t hurt for them, and they all spontaneously agree.

If we challenge their own driving force, and force obedience on them, we get chaos. We sure know what that feels like!

We need to change our ways if humanity is to survive.

We have to allow others their own power.

Surprisingly, this change eliminates all conflict.

The worlds conflict is the consequence of interfering with the natural flow of life.

Proof? Try it! Any scale works! Allow one child to keep the power they were born with. Then look out. Conflict doesn’t happen, ever.

It is a serious thing to take away someone’s power, and it would be strange if severe consequences didn’t follow.

Well, they certainly did follow!

What natural flow?

New life powers it’s own way, and the caregivers support that effort in every way they can!

Life is not as we assume. It’s independent!

Take that away, and the trouble begins.

Keep doing that anyway, and every person becomes increasingly isolated! Fear and hate appear!

Allow everybody their own natural power, and we get community and cooperation back!

This simple fact, is the most important understanding in the universe!

It’s the difference between trust, love and peace, or conflict and war.

It’s the difference between happiness and misery.

Wisdom would probably suggest we allow animals to keep their own power as well.

Why invite despair into existence!

It affects us all. It always finds a way to permeate throughout our world.

Thanks for listening,

Good luck on your own journey,

Take care,

Norm